The winner of a competition to depict "Jesus of the people" was this haunting image. Unfortunately I don't remember where I obtained it, which means that I can't give the artist proper credit.
I do remember that it was one of about 1700 entrees. I also remember that it raised quite a ruckus as it was seen to be blasphemous, being negroid and altogether too feminine. It only goes to show that competitions of this sort raise strong emotions. The question is how we handle this sort of opposition and controversy.

As can be seen, these pictures show us that non-whites often see Jesus in different colours and settings. Apart from the "Jesus of the People" all previous images were collected from a United Church poster which has been produced to promote the unity of humanity.

The following presentations have been placed in order to draw our attention to the fact that the world's great religions share some rather important ideas and concepts.  The point of that series is that God's Spirit apparently is as active in the minds of other people as it is in the people of the Christian community.  This seems to support the findings of the study: "Reconciling and making new: Who is Jesus for the World today?" #1, it shows that Christians from different cultures illustrate their stories in a different fashion than Europeans and Americans do, and #2, it shows that from time immemorial certain ideas and principles have apparently been generated by God's Spirit and have been shared by the diverse populations of the world. 
What lessons can we learn from that discovery, and what difference would that make in our  relationship with people of other faiths? Aren't we forced to the conclusion that we are indeed children of one God, a God who makes the sun to shine on the rich and the poor as well as on the just and the unjust equally? Having gotten to know the "Master of the Universe" as a just God, we ought not be surprised. 

 

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